Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

[Peter Volkov]

В Вск, 01/05/2011 в 13:44 +0300, Panagiotis Christopoulos пишет:
> On 12:06 Sun 01 May     , Samuli Suominen wrote:
> > So not only they are rather useless, and information you can easily
> get
> > from sources.gentoo.org, they take your time as well.
>
> Then, let's change it to:
> <snip>
> "Though not mandatory, it is highly recommended that file removals are
> also recorded the same way."
> </snip>

Panagiotis, there is no use in ChangeLog if information there is not
reliable. With policy you suggest one will have to check ChangeLog first
and then in half cases go to sources.gentoo.org to find out when ebuild
was removed. Two actions instead of one: either look ChangeLog or go to
web for cvs history.

Also, repoman commit is even slower then echangelog and thus nobody
waits for it to finish: just call it in console and switch to other
deals then just return back to check. If there are very many commits it
possible to script them. The only thing Samuli needs to do is to use
ecommit() hook:

ecommit() {
	echangelog "$@"
	repoman commit -m "$@"
}

But Samuli knows this very well and Fabian's answer describes situation
best.

-- 
Peter.